Closing Reception: Thursday March 23th, 2009, 5:30 - 7:30 pm.Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend.

Scaffolding
highlights the work of several Southwest Virginia artists – painters,
photographers, sculptors, printmakers, ceramicists, muralists –
who teach at area colleges. The ‘scaffolding’ of the title refers to
the supportive role these artists play for students in the area; a sort
of temporary infrastructure built around young artists as they develop
their work and ideas. These artists, remembering their own formative
experiences, are aware of the powerful potential they have to advance
student’s artistic growth. They become the means through which art
ideas get transmitted from the past to the present, and forward into
the future. Through traditional classroom settings and particularly
their own artistic practice (the results of which are on view in this
exhibition) these artists offer divergent examples to the next
generation of what an artist’s life might look like.

The
Charles Harris Library Art Gallery is proud to exhibit the work of
these artists and welcomes the local and regional communities to
visit.